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Dave Attell | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast

Hachi Machi, the 2024 Through the Roof Tour is about to launch, baby.
Come out and see the boys.
It's the stand-up comedy show, and then we answer your garbage questions.
You've seen the clips.
You know it's a good time.
Grab the squad and come see the boys, baby.
Yeah, it starts April 17th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Then April 18th, we're going to Nashville, Tennessee.
April 19th in Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Theater.
April 20th at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, Georgia.
Get all those tickets and tickets for all the other cities.
On the Through the Roof Tour at RUGarbage.com.
Welcome to another exciting edition of Are You Garbage?
The show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast.
This is RU Garbage.
It's that little show we sit down with your favorite comedians, and we find
that it's a
group to be classy or just a big old piece of trash.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're out back here at Tootie's in a new edition.
She's in the garage doing a little chest presser out there, working with the
dumbbells.
Good for her.
$2.25 this broad.
She's pretty strong.
Scrappy.
My co-host is coming at you from right next to me.
He is the CEO of RU Garbage.
He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world.
Give it up for KJ.
Kevin James Ryan, everybody.
What's up, gang?
Thanks for tuning in.
As always, please make sure you rate, review, subscribe on iTunes.
Full video available on YouTube.
As you know, those numbers are...
True to rev.
I can't do this with him staring at me.
Obviously, the greatest website of all time.
www.patreon.com slash RU Garbage Gang.
Check it out.
It's a party.
Uh-huh.
And having a nice shout out to our producer extraordinaire, the old magic man.
Makes us all look good.
Works the ones, the twos, the threes, and the fours.
He crosses the T's and he dots the I's.
Give it up for T-Bone McScruffins.
Toby McBowen, everybody.
What up, boys?
What up, T-Bone?
Hey, pal.
I'm stoked, man.
Break out a Girls Gone Wild commercial.
Take me back, baby.
This is a got a legend in here.
Gang, the long hair ain't lying because we couldn't be more excited to have our
incredibly,
and I mean incredibly, special guest here with us today for the first time.
He is a legendary stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.
And you might have seen him in, but not limited to.
Sit back, folks, because he's got a laundry list of credits.
You got Louie.
You got Teacher's Lounge, Trainwreck, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Bob's Burgers, Difficult
People, I Feel Pretty, The Simpsons, Bumping Mikes, Crashing, Bupkus, Life of
Beth,
HBO Comedy Half Hour, Late Show with David Letterman, Tough Crowd with Colin
Quinn,
Insomniac with David Tell, 40 episodes of that, Arrested Development, you got
Comedy Central
Presents, Heckler, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tosh.0, WTF with Marc Maron,
The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Days Old Porn, 16 episodes of that,
Carson Daly,
you got The Jim Norton Show, The Daily Show, 19 episodes of that, you got Cop
Show, The Joe
Rogan Experience, Jimmy Kimmel, Something's Burning, Lights Out with David Spade,
Friends Who
Kill, and Conan.
He also wrote 20 episodes of Saturday Night Live and 16 episodes of The Jon
Stewart Show
and many, many more and also has multiple stand-up specials and albums out
right now.
You got Your Mouse Not Pregnant, Captain Miserable, Road Work, Skanks for the
Memories,
Insomniac Tour, and he's got a brand new special out right now over there on
Netflix, so you
got to check out Hot Cross Buns.
Give it up for the one and the only, Mr. David Teller.
How about that?
Look at that.
You ain't lying, buddy.
I told you it's a big one.
You did it all.
Wow.
I left off Caroline's comedy out.
Oh, please.
No.
I figured you would open with that.
Honestly.
Man.
Mm.
Buddy.
What a body of work.
It's all boiled down to a ripped piece of loose leaf.
Well, thanks for having me on.
You know, I got to say one thing.
You know, I've done a lot of pods or podcasts, whatever you call it, but this
is the one I've
been wanting to do.
Oh, thank you.
So, it's great to be here at Tuddy's.
Is that what you mean?
Yeah, Tuddy's.
There we go.
The ready room.
I like that's what I got a bar over there.
You got a couple of gumball machines and whatnot.
It's kind of a real make-a-wish in here.
Anything goes.
Anything goes here.
A real fat kid's make-a-wish.
Which reminds me, when I did difficult people, I'll keep referencing the shitty
credits
that I have there.
That's a good show.
I was on that show.
You know, on the A-list, we used to say.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Oh, man.
Give us the backstory.
What's the origin story of David Tell?
A little bit of a mystery surrounding you.
I don't know.
I think, well, let's face it.
I mean, I'm an old man.
You know, this is not the lighting or anything like that, but I am an old man.
All right.
It's not the lighting or the three hats.
Guys, let me earn it.
No.
I did this Philly style.
Come on, man.
You haven't seen this in front of Pat's or Geno's?
Oh, I didn't bring my squeegee?
Anyway, yeah, I'm from Long Island, and, you know, I've been doing comedy now
37 years.
Wow.
Love that.
That's why this new special, Hot Crust Buns, 37 minutes.
Yeah.
One minute.
For every hour?
Yeah, for every year.
There you go.
I love it.
And, you know, I started out local scene, of course, and I know you guys are
new to the
New York scene, so how are you finding it?
You liking it?
Yeah, we love it, man.
Yeah, it's been great.
We've been here for about 10 years, actually.
Yeah.
Slugging it out for a long time.
That's all right, guys.
Yeah.
Once you get on my radar, you're here.
We're in, baby.
Yeah, that's right.
All the hot coffee and prunes we can ask for.
There you go, bud.
You have one of-
You're on the winning team now.
You have one of my very early New York comedy memories.
We were standing out front of the Village Lantern down there.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
We were barking, waiting for the show to get off, and you walked by, and you
said, toe
the line, boys.
Hold the line.
That was grooming, by the way.
That was not comedy knowledge or anything.
He also gave me a whoosh.
Did I?
Hey, sugar tits.
Well, I will say this, is that I've been doing comedy mostly on the road,
because I'm a road
comic, club comic.
But I didn't think this comedy boom would go so long, you know?
I mean, when I started, it was kind of the comedy bust.
You know, it was the Dust Bowl times.
So it was really kind of, you know, it was kind of bleak.
Yeah.
And, you know, it was not a big deal.
But now I think it's off to the races.
Yeah, it's bigger than it's ever been.
It's crazy, yeah.
It is really big, and I was stupid to put all that effort into juggling.
I figured it would be, what's the next art form that needs some attention?
It's not the fire sticks we're going to take off.
I don't think fire sticks, maybe even ventriloquism might come back.
I don't know.
Uh-huh.
But, yeah, no, I've been doing it for a long time, and, you know, you guys have
seen what
I do.
You know, it's just like dumb jokes, basically.
One of the best, baby.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Hey, well, thanks, man.
I appreciate it.
And, you know, in this world where everybody is a critic, you know, I, of
course, have to
filter up a bit.
But back in the day, you know, in the roaring 90s, you know, pretty much
anything went.
Sure, yeah, it was flawless.
It was a good time, you know.
And, you know, I could totally see why, you know, people are the way things are
now.
But it was definitely more fun back then.
Of course.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I understand it.
It was more raucous.
Raucous, bawdy, you know.
Dave, take us back a little bit further.
Mom and dad, brothers, sisters.
What are we talking about here?
Where in Long Island?
All of the pronouns are all in one house.
I'm from originally South Shore, Long Island.
And I grew up in a family business, which is, I don't know if you guys are into
bridal.
But my dad had a bridal shop.
I worked there.
Okay.
My mom worked there.
Wow.
At one point, all of my brothers worked there.
My grandpa worked there.
At one point, my grandpa worked for me because I was head of shipping and
receiving.
Okay.
And he worked for me.
So in 90s, well, at that point, he was in his 80s and I was 17.
So it was really a weird thing.
And I sold shoes and tuxes, you know, for weddings and stuff like that.
And, you know, as a boy, of course, being close to all of that femininity.
Sure.
I mean, really, I'd fight the urge, you know, jumping teams.
But I was going to say, you know, at night I would clean the store.
It was just me and the mannequins.
Oh, all right.
Fair enough.
At what age did you start working?
Was it young?
Oh, yeah, like around 16.
And your dad opened the store out there.
Yeah.
Okay.
Busy, I assume?
No, it actually fell apart when we lost our house.
So it's like one of those stories.
Thanks for bringing that up, Fatty.
No, no, I don't mind.
I don't mind getting into it.
The guy put everything he had into it.
And, you know, that's just sometimes how it goes.
But I will say one thing is that it did help me, like, learn to talk to people.
Sure.
You know, that kind of thing.
And, you know, having to deal with, you know, like these crazy brides, you know,
the bridezillas and all that kind of stuff.
And also the guys, like, you know, with the tuxes, like, you know, when it
would go
out, it would look totally different when it came back.
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, like covered in puke and other fluids.
Yeah, blood and stuff.
Oh, yeah.
You're talking what, early 80s?
When are you working there?
I would say early 80s.
And then, you know, then I went to college, you know, I went to NYU.
Did you?
Did you really?
I didn't know that.
I just really wanted out of the house.
I was a terrible student, but.
What'd you major in?
Protesting.
Yeah, three majors back then.
No, film and television.
Okay.
And, you know, it's funny because, like, the cellar is right by there.
Yeah.
When I see these kids walking around in their bubble, you know, and I was never
like those
kids because, you know, once I went to go see stand-up, I really was like, oh,
man, this
is so cool.
But I didn't think I could do it or I didn't think I was going to do it or
anything like
that.
And then I kind of, like, jumped into it, like open mic style.
And, you know, but the cellar was right there.
So I would go see, like, Alan Havy and Colin Quinn.
There were so many, like, great legends of comedy that were, like, working at
that point.
But comedy itself was, like, kind of bleak.
And, you know, by the time I got into it, it was pretty much death.
And I used to work at the old original Improv in Midtown.
And that was run by Silver Saunders Friedman, who was Bud Friedman's ex-wife.
And I'm sure the comedy fans out there know this, but there was a divorce.
Bud went west and Silver kept the New York club.
And Bud's club went on to great success.
And the New York one was pretty much...
Turned into a pizza shop.
It flamed out.
It really flamed out.
But that's a place where I learned a lot about, like, what not to do in comedy.
Pretty much where, like, you guys will get this.
Where there's a lot of guys who were pretty much, you know, waiting on a sitcom.
So they didn't put much work into their act.
So they'd go up there, do the same set, and then get drunk and high.
And I always said to myself, since I work on the door, I'm like, if I ever get
that stage time, I'm going to, like, do something new.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's what I always said to myself.
And I try and, like, live by that creed, I guess.
But that's where I, like, I saw Bill Hicks for the first time and all these
different people.
And then, like, you know, back in the day, like, there were clubs that you
probably wouldn't realize.
But, like, Stand Up N